I nod and you gesture with your chin as you lean across the cab to unlock your passenger side door and a moment later I find myself climbing in and si...ting down across from you without hesitation.Once inside your car I suddenly become self-conscious, through the rain beaded windows of your car I wasn’t aware of how truly beautiful you are, and now I find myself unable to look away from those piercing eyes. I can feel my face go flush with blood and I somehow manage to eventually tear my eyes. ‘I can pay for tuition but not for housing and meal plan. Or I can pay for room and board but I won’t have anything left to pay for classes with. So I’m stuck.’ ‘Wait,’ Anders said. Christi stopped packing and reeled on him silently, defying him to help. Good luck. But she could see the engineer gear whirring behind his glasses. Identify the problem and design a solution. That was how his mind worked. ‘So if you had a place to live, you could pay your tuition and stay in school?’ ‘Well yah,. Do we have Bologna?” She had sworn off Bologna at nine years old. When I prepared an Alfredo pasta - delicious creamy, garlicky sauce tossed in fettuccine - she leaned over the saucepan, sniffed, and told me it needed more salt.“You can’t smell salt, Sia,” I informed her, a bit miffed.“Well, I can!”The first taste confirmed my slightly wonky daughter could, indeed, smell salt. While it was amusing, this sensory development concerned me. How else had her brain been affected by the. For the past few weeks she had been able to wheedle some money out of him to buy herself some new clothes. She didn’t care that he was married already. Clay was the type of guy that enjoyed extra curricular activities but would never leave his wife. She knew his type well, especially with the lesson she had learned with Peter. Clay was just for fun, and it didn’t hurt that he supplied her with her favorite toys, jewelry, money, and other tangible. Maybe if she was very persuasive, she could.